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What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

In 1973 an anthropologist put a group of men and women from around the world on a raft and cast them out to sea, but the results were not what he expected.

In 1973 Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genov茅s decided to create an experiment to find out what drives people to commit acts of violence. He put a group of men and women from different parts of the world on a raft and cast them out to sea. But what happened was not what he expected. Emily Webb hears from three of the women who took part - F茅 Seymour, Edna Reves and Maria Bjornstam. This story was originally broadcast in May 2019.

Anthony Garone was a guitar-mad kid growing up in 1990s Arizona in the US. Having mastered many of his heroes' work by the age of 16, his dad set him a challenge to play an 'impossible' song, Fracture by British prog-rock band King Crimson, that would聽consume him and his family for the next 22 years.

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Picture: The raft cast out to sea by Santiago Genov茅s
Credit: Modern Films

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